Harvey’s tour will take in shows at the MONA FOMA Festival in Hobart, Tasmania, two shows at the Sydney Festival as well as headline shows in Melbourne and Perth.

The current 23rd season of The Simpsons may be the last. 20th Century Fox says it will axe the longest running cartoon show in TV if the actors don’t take a significant pay-cut.

Jeff Magnum, from indie icons Neutral Milk Hotel, has done a solo acoustic set for the Wall Street protesters.

Hyper new punk act OFF!, featuring former Black Flag and Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris, are coming to Australia.

Powderfinger guitarist and producer Darren Middleton has joined the fold at Chris Cheney’s Red Door Sounds studio.

This Friday October 7 sees the final ticket offering for the massive AAMI Park Foo Fighters shows.

Coal Chamber will reform to play at Soundwave 2012. The first line-up announcement for Soundwave 2012 is expected this Friday. Dez Fafara from Coal Chamber has already let it be known the band is on the way back.

Cody Simpson will do a whip around Australia this week to meet fans in shopping malls.

Controversial dancehall star Vybz Kartel has been charged with murder in Jamaica.

The Cirque du Soliel takes on a third artist (after the Beatles and Elvis Presley) to put their special spin on the artist's music and legacy with Michael Jackson's Immortal. The soundtrack to their latest show will be released on November 21 by Epic in a single and deluxe two-CD set.

Country star Hank Williams Jr has angered American’s of all sides after comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler.

Steve Kilbey of The Church has launched Melbourne’s newest venue, the newly renovated Greyhound in St Kilda.

The Rose Tattoo frontman is planning a tilt at politics as a National and is already eyeing off two federal seats in NSW.

Melbourne music fans will be treated to a series of free live music events at Docklands later this week.

Hear all nineteen remixes of tracks from Radiohead’s King Of Limbs streaming online.

Falls Festival visitors Beirut and The Kooks have booked their sideshows in the new year.

The Bon Iver tour keeps rolling with a third and final Brisbane date.

The reformed Spin Doctors have taken their classic ‘Pocket Full Of Kyptonite’ on the road to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the album.

Fleet Foxes will be getting out of the pubs and clubs and grabbing some class when they play the Sydney Opera House next year.

American rapper and producer J. Cole will have the number one album in the USA by week’s end. ‘Cole World: The Sideline Story’ has a good lead over all other releases this week.

The next Aztec Music release will be the 1977 recordings from Aussie punk legends X.

Chris Taylor from indie darlings Grizzly Bear will perform a one-off side show for side project CANT.

Gene Simmons has married Shannon Tweed, his lady of 28 years and mother to his two children Nick and Sophie.

Courtney Love has scored a book deal to write a “tell-all” memoir to “set the record straight”.

Flea and Thom Yorke have both talked about the album from their supergroup Atoms For Peace.

Magnetic Fields’ ringleader Stephen Merritt is set to release an album of rare early tracks.

The Laneway Festival has honoured late Magic Dirt bassist Dean Turner with a new stage.

Adele still reigns supreme on the charts but twelve new entries break into the top 25 in this week’s chart.

What a band. Alice Cooper has Steve Hunter back in the band. Hunter played with Cooper on the ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ and ‘Muscle of Love’ albums. He is also the lead guitarist on the amazing opening for ‘Sweet Jane’ on Lou Reed’s ‘Rock and Roll Animal’.

The ‘She Will Have Her Way’ and ‘He Will Have His Way’ Tim and Neil Finn tribute albums have been combined into one double pack ‘They Will Have Their Way’ but with four new tracks.